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Comment by remcob

The distance between two uniform random points on an n-sphere clusters around the equator. The article shows a histogram of the distribution in fig. 11. While it looks Gaussian, it is more closely related to the Beta distribution. I derived it in my notes, as (surprisingly) I could not find it easily in literature:

https://xn--2-umb.com/21/n-sphere

parent remcob 2 years ago

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